“AN Irishman’s heart is nothing but his imagination,” observed George Bernard Shaw (GBS). Few writers have accumulated more honours than the extraordinary Dubliner. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, received an Academy Award for the screenplay of Pygmalion, transformed modern drama, reshaped political debate in Britain and Ireland, and became one of the most quoted intellectuals of the 20th century. When he was not writing plays, he was helping to shape the socialist movement.